Carbine Rifles
The carbine was born from the full-length service rifle, shortened for a more compact approach without loss of firepower.
1912
The Type 44 Carbine (also known as the Type 44 "Cavalry Rifle") was a standardized Japanese Army bolt-action carbine weapon d...
2007
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing is largely recognized for their massive, 0.50 caliber semi-automatic M82 anti-material rifle s...
1722
The Brown Bess was the standard musket of the British military during the height of its empirical reach. It went on to be use...
1856
The Burnside Carbine was a popular carbine rifle fielded across all of the major battlefronts of the American Civil War. The ...
1992
The M17S was a commercial "bull-pup" rifle system sold by the Bushmaster Firearms company of Windham, Maine, in the early-to-...
1892
The Carcano Modello 1891 (Model 1891) was the standard Italian Army service rifle of both World Wars. The design emerged from...
2009
Since 1959, the Czech Army relied on their venerable vz. 58 assault rifles, these weapons externally resembling the famous So...
1961
The Skorpion submachine gun is originally of Czechoslovakian origin and was designed in the late 1950s and formally introduce...
1988
Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS - now known as ST Kinetics) developed the SAR-80 Assault Rifle based on experience in ...
1984
The C7 assault rifle stemmed from the Canadian decision to go with the NATO 5.56mm cartridge as the standard ammunition of th...
1988
The Diemaco (now Colt Canada) C8 is the "assault carbine" form of the C7 - the C7 being the standard-issue assault rifle of t...
1966
Despite its caliber, the Colt Commando is classified as a submachine gun and was developed from the successful AR-15. The AR-...
1994
The M4/M4A Carbine is a 5.56mm compact, lightweight, gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed weapon system with selective fire...
1855
The Colt Revolving Rifle of 1855 - aptly named the "Model 1855" - was an attempt to provide the repeating action of a revolvi...
1860
The Cook & Brother Carbine was another in the long line of muzzle-loading muskets utilized in the great American Civil War. A...
1862
The Cosmopolitan Carbine was a percussion-based carbine firearm produced out of the Cosmopolitan Arms Company facility for th...
1943
The De Lisle silenced carbine was developed during 1942 as a time when the outcome of World War 2 was still very much in doub...
1985
After British participation in World War 2 (1939-1945) had ended, thought was given to modernizing Army infantry with a new s...
2009
The Fabrique Nationale FN SCAR (Special forces Combat Assault Rifle) will feature prominently in the future of the United Sta...
1935
Following the end of World War 1, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was no more, giving rise to the "Kingdom of Hungary" in 1920 an...
2005
Heckler & Koch unveiled the HK416 automatic rifle family in 2005 as a potential replacement for the M4 family series of carbi...
2006
The HK 417 began as a privately-funded company venture intended to supply US special forces with a modular battlefield weapon...
1959
At the end of World War 2, German engineers were working on perfecting a new breed of service rifle known as the "assault rif...
1996
The Heckler & Koch HK G36 series assault rifle was designed and developed to an exacting German Army requirement of the 1990s...
1995
In the 1990s, the US Army undertook formal evaluations of several competing automatic rifles to replace the long-running M16 ...
2003
The Heckler & Koch HK XM8 was an experimental modular assault rifle system that underwent trials with the US Army in an effor...
1999
The UMP family ("Universale Maschinenpistole" or "Universal Machine Pistol") is a series of submachine guns designed by the G...
1997
The IMBEL MD97 is a Brazilian made automatic assault rifle developed for both military and security use and has its indirect ...
1973
In the post-World War 2 world, the United Nations partitioned Palestine in 1947. In 1948, the nation of Israel was declared a...
1995
The Galil MAR (Micro-Assault Rifle) is nothing more than a highly compact form of the excellent Galil automatic rifle system....
2006
For decades the Israeli Army relied upon its trusted and true line of Galil and M16 automatic weapons in its various battlefi...
1998
The INSAS family was inducted into service with the Indian Army in 1998 and has already seen extensive combat service, partic...
2014
The AK-47 altered the world military stage by becoming a ubiquitous combat system available to the general masses. The weapon...
1983
The AKSU-74 represents a submachine gun derivative of the AKS assault rifle, both operating with the 5.45mm Soviet cartridge....
1991
Like the wz/88 "Tantal, a locally-produced Polish copy of the Russian AK-74S assault rifle, the wz/89 "Onyks" (or "Onyx") is ...
1995
The KBP 9A-91 was introduced after 1994 and is essentially an assault rifle in a carbine form making for a compact assault we...
1985
While displaying an appearance more akin to a shotgun, the Russians designate their KS-23 as a "Special Carbine" (KS = "Karab...
1895
The Lee-Enfield series of rifles is one of the most successful bolt-action rifles of all time. First debuted in November 1895...
1942
The American arms industry reached all new heights with its commitment in World War 2. Much of the existing stock of guns wer...
1936
The MAS 36 was a solid, if unspectacular, French Army service rifle appearing in small quantities before the start of World W...
1898
The Mauser Gewehr 98 (formally as the "Infantry Rifle Model 1898") was a manually operated, magazine fed, bolt-action rifle a...
1935
With origins as far back as the First World War, the Kar 98k (with "Kar" being short for "karabiner" or "carbine") was a dire...
1900
The Mondragon Rifle is noted as becoming one of the first semi-automatic/full-automatic service rifle to be adopted in quanti...
1891
Like all other world powers of the late-1800s, the Russian Empire sought modernization in its military inventory. This proved...
1997
The QBZ-95 is a family line of assault weapons contoured to operator needs and has been developed (as an economical measure) ...
1941
Despite its obvious battlefield value today, world militaries took some time to warm up to the idea of procuring and fielding...
1974
The PA3(DM) / FMK-3 submachine gun series was of indigenous Argentine design and chambered for the universally accepted 9x19 ...
1941
Before the arrival of the various storied American firearms of World War 2 such as the M1 Thompson, M1 Garand and M1 Carbine,...
1960
In need of a modern automatic service rifle, the South African government trialed the American AR-10 rifle, the West German G...
1982
Long relying on foreign arms to stock its military inventory, the South African national army faced a dilemma of sorts when a...
1973
The Ruger Mini-14 is based on the successful World War Two M1 Garand infantry rifle. In fact, most of the inner workings of t...
2009
The Ruger SR-556 is a relatively new commercial market addition to the Armalite AR-15 family of automatic, self-loading rifle...
1867
Christian Sharps initially spent time under the employ of other firearms manufacturers that included John Hall at the fabled ...
1990
The SIG SG 550 (Sturmgewehr Model 550) series was born in a Swiss Army initiative requiring an automatic weapon chambered for...
1945
The Soviet-produced SKS, or the Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova, was the design of Sergei Gavrilovish Simonov and is s...
1860
Christopher Spencer (1833-1922) proved an inventor at heart and one of his most storied creations became the repeat-fire, lev...
1941
The British STEN submachine gun is one of those rare firearms in history that was born of desperation and turned into a war-w...
1978
Like other European nations during the Cold War, the Austrian Army made use of the excellent Belgian FN FAL Battle Rifle firi...
1963
The M63A1 Stoner machine gun was the last production small arms Stoner weapon made. The system was designed as a light machin...
1976
In an attempt to stock its national armory with an indigenous design, Taiwanese engineers developed the T65 (Type 65), an aut...
2000
For decades, Taiwanese Army and Marine forces relied on their Armalite-inspired T65 assault rifles. The T65 debuted in 1976 a...
2003
The evolution of the standard-issue Taiwanese Army service rifle that began with the T65 of 1976 and evolved into the T86 of ...
1963
Southerner Jere H. Tarpley of Greensboro, North Carolina developed his aptly-named, breech-loading "Tarpley Carbine" of .52 ...
1940
Small arms ingenuity was an area that the Soviets held something of an advantage in over their German counterpart in the deca...
1956
To make the Soviet AK-47 readily available and at a lower procurement cost, the Chinese took to locally manufacturing the ass...
1956
The Type 56 Carbine (not to be confused with the Type 56 Assault Rifle) was nothing more than a local Chinese copy of the Sov...
1866
While the lever-action repeating Henry Rifle of 1860 proved revolutionary in its own right, it still held some limitations wi...
1873
The Model 1873 was one of the early legends of the burgeoning American firearms industry and a model product by the Wincheste...
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